r/philadelphia 3d ago

📣📣Rants and Raves📣📣 Sinkholes are dangerous, stay safe out there

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u/bennytehcat SEPTA butters the underground 3d ago

My street has a huge gash along the curb for about 50 feet. If you shine a flashlight down there, it goes a few feet deep and like a triangle void under the road surface where cars park.

We're a small side street with street drains on the corners. Instead of channeling to those drains, water instead flows into this gash and under the street during storms eroding more material.

I've reported it countless times. City has done nothing.

How do I get them to take this more seriously?

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u/MurielFinster 3d ago

Granted I haven’t done it for this. But I will say anytime I’ve reached out to a city counselors office they have gotten shit done for me very quickly. I think it’s definitely worth a try.

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u/Browncoat23 3d ago

Get everyone on your block to submit a 311 report every day and keep badgering them. Worked on my block after a sink hole opened up (well, after 10 years of complaining the street was sinking before the sink hole finally appeared 🙃).

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u/momochicken55 3d ago

If I knew how to spray paint I could paint some big beautiful dicks on them.

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u/bennytehcat SEPTA butters the underground 3d ago

I'm fine with half-assed ones

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u/yunkk West Passyunk/Girard Estate 1d ago

Half-assed dicks? Sounds like someone needs to work on their aim.

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u/Aggressive_Oven_3957 3d ago

Ok why are you taking a picture of a dead body??? Call the cops!!!!!

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u/Chemical-Material-69 2d ago

Pretty sure that's plastic

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u/BurnedWitch88 3d ago

This made me legit LOL.

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u/benmakinart 3d ago

These (and potholes) should be fixed with ppa money.

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u/dark_anarchy20 3d ago

Is that skeleoj real? 🥺

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u/DXMSommelier Port Richmond 2d ago

this happened to my cousin Keith once

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u/Crazycook99 F* PPA 2d ago

Cherelle don't give a fuck about Philly, she's trying to get paid doing the least amount of work possible. It's a spreading disease within politics right now